Biography

1781 - 12/07/1832

Brigadier General Thomas Jones Rogers (Democratic Republican8) Lehigh, Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties 1815-1818 

Early Life:

Brigadier General Thomas Jones Rogers, born 1781, Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland; son of Joseph Rogers; immigrated, settled with parents, Easton, Pennsylvania United States, 1784; engaged, printing trade; editor and owner Northampton Farmer 1805-1814; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1815-1818; elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, 1818-1824; trustee, Lafayette College, 1826-1832; register and recorder of deeds, Northampton County, 1828-1830; brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia; United States naval officer, port of Philadelphia; son, William Finley Rogers; died, December 7, 1832, New York City County, Manhattan, New York; interment, New Market Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reinterment, Glenwood Memorial Gardens, Broomall, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1851.

Early Career:

Editor, owner Northampton Farmer 1805-1814; trustee, Lafayette College, 1826-1832; brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia; United States naval officer, port of Philadelphia. 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democratic Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 8th District, Lehigh, Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties, 1815-1818. 

Register, recorder of deeds, Northampton County, 1828-1830. 

Continued Government Service/National Politics:

Elected, Republican, United States House of Representatives, Fifteenth Congress, vacancy, resignation, John Ross; reelected, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth Congresses, March 3, 1818, resigned, April 20, 1824. 

Legacy:

Father, Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General William Finley Rogers.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "R"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

Heller, William J. (1920). History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania. New York: The American Historical Society. page 291.

Thomas Jones Rogers (1781-1832) - Find a Grave Memorial